So, Time Warner Cable is now charging me a $6/month "lease fee" for the internet cable modem they installed in 2008. No thanks. You can have your 6 year old modem, I'll buy my own (Motorola SB6141). Yet another reason they shouldn't be allowed to merge with Comcast - and why Google Fiber needs to come to Raleigh.

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Paul Rohrbaugh: Go with earthlink, don't charge for modem.

Philip Turner: Paul, technically I am with Earthlink. They use Time Warner for their back-end infrastructure, so I get my bills from Time Warner. So, expect to get charged for your modem in the future as well. It's rolling out to all Time Warner (and Earthlink) customers.

Finally took some time to install the final version of Windows 8 at work yesterday. Very smooth and stable, but also very different. Will be interesting to see how their enterprise base will react to the predominate Metro/Modern UI.

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Jason Buckner: Think it's worth it to build a VM just to poke around?I suppose we'll see. Three more hours to go on the download.

Philip Turner: Absolutely. Let me know what you think.

Jason Buckner: The UI seems well suited to touch interface, but was downright frustrating within a virtual machine on my laptop. At seemingly random times, I'd be dumped into a standard Windows 8 Desktop with no Start button. Call me a keyboard junkie, but I love being able to press my Windows key once and type "wo" & Enter to open up Word. While visually pleasing, it was hard to navigate around and I was prompted for my Microsoft log-in to do nearly everything I wanted. I can imagine the anti-trust lawsuits queuing up now.